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Month: December 2013

My favorite: Cinnamon Crumb Cake from Panera Bread which was literally devoured by me and my sister in seconds!

Only seven days in a week and I wonder, how much time does everyone really give towards their family?

Besides baking together(I think you should know my whole family has a passion for baking. My 3 yr old sister even tries ‘reading’ the recipe and sometimes I let her crack the egg!), my family and I love going outdoors, places such as to mountains, lakes, fun picnics…you get the picture. Continue reading →

Baking requires time, patience and dedication. The end result? Something worth being proud of.

“How long,” demanded madame, composedly, “does it take to make and store the lightening?”“It does not take a long time,” said madame, “for an earthquake to swallow a town. Eh well! Tell me how long it takes to prepare the earthquake?”“A long time, I suppose,” said Defrage.

Sometimes I feel that when people bake, the time they spent in making the item goes unnoticed. In my last post I had a Cupcake Give Away and it took me forever to decide what to make. I spent hours searching for the perfect recipe and when I decided to make Peanut Butter Cupcakes, I had to make sure no one allergic to nuts. I went around asking people, “Hey. So, are you allergic to nuts….do you like peanut butter?”

And they looked at me like I was asking the random-est question in the world. I didn’t want to say what I was making because it was supposed to be a surprise! Continue reading →

“It was prevalent everywhere. Hunger stared down from the smokeless chimneys, and started up from the filthy street that had no offal, among its refuse of anything to eat. Hunger was the inscription on baker’s shelves, written in every small loaf of his scanty stock of bad bread…”

Cupcakes can grab anyone’s attention. Especially when people are HUNGRY! Charles Dickens “A Tale of Two Cities” talks about how so many families go hungry and the whole city seems to be filled with walking “dead” people.

No one in any of my classes that I know of (HOPEFULLY) is dying of Hunger, but Hunger doesn’t just kill us. It makes us desperate. Everyone can relate to being desperate because everyone is desperate for something; jobs, grades, getting accepted into their dream university, or an A on that one math test I took two weeks ago.

Its so depressing that the people in the book are so desperate for food that when a wine cask of wine spills, they rush to drink some and even give babies wine! Babies aren’t supposed to drink that!!! But what can the families do if there is no food on the table?

That makes me feel so thankful. I have problems, but I never have to think of going to bed hungry at night.

So in Honor of my English class reading this book, I want to have my first Cupcake Giveaway!

To Earn a Chance to Win a Free Cupcake, you must:

Be a Student (Mr. Theriault is the exception)

Be in Mr. T’s English Class

Love Cupcakes (that’s easy)

Tell me which cupcake is your favorite from the picture above 🙂

The first FIVE people to comment get Cupcakes on MONDAY DEC. 9TH 2013

The cupcakes you’ll get won’t be the ones in the picture above, but they will be good. Trust me.

I’m planning on having more in the future so lets see how you guys like this one!